And king cobras feed only on snakes.

Usually they eat larger snakes like rat snakes, or even cobras.

And now the king cobra is a new one.

The king cobra is quite remarkable for several reasons.

The people of this part of India worship the king cobra.

And the final word is that there is a king cobra looking over our shoulders.

This is an average size king cobra, about 12 feet long.

And there might be quite a few people here who would be very glad to see the last king cobra bite the dust.

This gives you an idea of the size of some of these snakes.

Well, the king cobra is literally a keystone species in these rainforests.

I had the pleasure of being close to this large king cobra who had caught a venomous pit viper.

Whereas other king cobras very often come into the human interface, you know, the plantations, to find big rat snakes and stuff.

Even if I told you that she just stopped me from walking into a great big cobra and that she knew what she was doing?

Did Paulie wear glasses?

Would you remove your glasses, please?

In this case a rather strange and inexplicable activity happened over the last breeding season, wherein a large male king cobra actually grabbed a female king cobra, didn't mate with it, actually killed it and swallowed it.

Snake eyes again.

I want mine to wear glasses.

And when the average person looks at a cobra going Ssssss! like that, they say, My god, look at that angry, dangerous creature.

Mother's always looking for her glasses

Now we've caught more than 100 king cobras over the last three years, and relocated them in nearby forests.

And the guy who is working there with them, he's from Maharashtra, he said, I think he's after the nusha.

Glasses. Oh.

Glasses?

And, just like Project Tiger, our activities with the king cobra is to look at a species of animal so that we protect its habitat and everything within it.

This crocodile, which grows to almost 20 feet long in the northern rivers, and this charismatic snake, the king cobra.

What you're seeing here is very recently shot images in a forest nearby here, of a female king cobra making her nest.

My first experience with king cobras was in '72 at a magical place called Agumbe, in Karnataka, this state.

He is wearing glasses.

Fisheye lens

Have you actually ever seen him?

Where are they now?

About the glasses.

Eyeglasses, you know.

Your glasses...

A monocle?

Does he wear glasses?

without your spectacles?

Okay, so I've made these glasses and ...

Yes, the glasses.

You have glasses?

Get yourself glasses!

My glasses. Where are my glasses?

She wore glasses, too.

He wasn't wearing glasses.